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President Barack Obama told The New York Times, in an interview published Sunday, that he is willing to talk to the moderate elements of the Taliban in order to reach a negotiated end to the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, now in its eighth year and showing no end in sight. A question that was put to this correspondent Sunday in a television interview by a reporter following Obama's st ... read more 
Washington (AFP) March 9, 2009Five Chinese vessels maneuvered dangerously close to a US Navy ship in the South China Sea on Sunday, closing within 25 feet of the unarmed surveillance ship, the Pentagon said. "This was a reckless, dangerous maneuver that was unprofessional" and violated international law, Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters on Monday. The United States protested to Chinese author ... more
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IAEA confirms 'technical' discussions on Iran's nuclear programme next week
Iran urges US to drop 'excessive demands' to reach deal Press Release from Business Wire: Sun Nuclear Iran FM says 'good progress' in talks with US Press Release from Business Wire: Proxima Fusion USS Gerald Ford leaves Crete as Iran talks begin: AFP Iran says US talks to focus solely on nuclear programme Iran insists not seeking nuclear weapon ahead of US talks Snake-like robot unveiled for Fukushima debris removal Iran president says ahead of US talks not seeking nuclear weapon 'at all' 
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Baghdad (AFP) March 9, 2009A senior MP from radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr's party on Monday called for the immediate withdrawal of US troops, a day after plans for a major drawdown was announced. Iraq and the United States said on Sunday that 12,000 US troops will go home by the end of September in a first step toward completing a withdrawal by 2011 under an accord signed between Baghdad and Washington last ... more 
Washington (UPI) Mar 9, 2009 CNN is watched the world over, and fear and worst-case scenarios are contagious. Fareed Zakaria's Sunday talk show "GPS" was doom and gloom on a global scale. Globalization is in retreat; capital flows are shrinking; a massive financial crisis, the likes of which have not been seen since the 1930s, is on its way; Asian exports are down 30 percent to 40 percent; Eastern European states, the for ... more  
Arlington VA (SPX) Mar 10, 2009CACI International has announced that it has been awarded a new task order, totaling an estimated $40 million in value, under the U.S. Army's Strategic Services Sourcing (S3) contract vehicle. The contract, for one base year and two option years, supports the Army's Product Manager Forward Looking Infrared (PM FLIR) and Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD). The award inc ... more 
London (AFP) March 9, 2009Britain is to temporarily withdraw Nimrod spy planes from overseas operations to carry out safety modifications ordered after a deadly crash in Afghanistan, a government minister said Monday. Fourteen servicemen were killed in the 2006 crash, when their Nimrod exploded in mid-air shortly after refueling, in the British military's single biggest loss of life in a single incident for nearly 25 ... more |
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Zelensky seeks more air defence as Russia plunges Kyiv into coldVilnius (AFP) Jan 25, 2026 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sought more air defence support from allies on Sunday as hundreds of buildings in Kyiv were without heating in freezing temperatures for a second day after Russian strikes. ... more 
US to repeal the basis for its climate rules: What to knowWashington, United States (AFP) Jan 17, 2026 President Donald Trump's administration is finalizing its repeal of a foundational scientific determination that underpins the US government's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, with an announcement expected in the coming weeks. ... more 
  
Launching the idea of data centers in spaceSan Francisco, United States (AFP) Feb 3, 2026 Tech firms are floating the idea of building data centers in space and tapping into the sun's energy to meet out-of-this-world power demands in a fierce artificial intelligence race. ... more 
Anthropic unveils new AI model as OpenAI rivalry heats upSan Francisco, United States (AFP) Feb 5, 2026 Anthropic on Thursday released its latest high-performing artificial intelligence model, escalating its challenge to OpenAI in the intensifying AI race. ... more
Musk merges xAI into SpaceX in bid to build space data centersSan Francisco, United States (AFP) Feb 3, 2026 Elon Musk has announced that his rocket company SpaceX will take over his artificial intelligence outfit xAI, as he seeks to raise billions of dollars for his science fiction-worthy outer space projects. ... more
  
Reprogrammable metal bricks give robots muscle-like adaptabilityLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2026 Mechanical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a proof-of-concept material system that allows solid Lego-like building blocks to be programmed with different mechanical properties and the ... more 
OpenClaw's AI agent does everything, even social mediaWashington, United States (AFP) Feb 2, 2026 Meet OpenClaw: the AI assistant that promised to be your dream intern, terrified cybersecurity experts, and now thrives on chatbot-only social media - all in just a few weeks. ... more 
Human taught tactile control lets robots grasp diverse objectsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 When humans pick up everyday items such as fragile eggs or slippery metal cups, they instinctively adjust their grip using tactile feedback to avoid breaking or dropping them. In contrast, enabling ... more
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Washington (AFP) March 9, 2009US Vice President Joe Biden heads to Brussels on Monday for consultations with NATO allies as a moment of decision looms on a new US strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Biden, who holds a day of talks in Brussels Tuesday, will be on his second trip to Europe in a month, and officials said his high-profile journey was a sign of how seriously the war policy review was being taken. ... more 
Cincinnati OH (SPX) Mar 10, 2009BAE Systems has received a contract from the U.S. Army to supply Tensylon composite armor panels for the Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET) vehicles. HET vehicles transport, deploy, recover and evacuate combat-loaded main battle tanks and other heavy tracked and wheeled vehicles to and from the battlefield. Tensylon is a state-of-the-art material developed exclusively by BAE Systems t ... more 
Ottawa (AFP) March 9, 2009Canada's Defense Minister Peter MacKay expressed surprise Monday that the United States would reportedly promote him to European allies to become the next NATO chief. "That's breaking news to me," MacKay told a press conference. "I've never had discussions with (US) Vice President (Joe) Biden about this." Biden, according to The Washington Post newspaper, is to press European allies in ... more 
Washington (AFP) March 9, 2009The United States said Monday that northeast Asia is threatened by North Korea's "bellicose rhetoric" rather by than the annual US-South Korean military maneuvers. The exercises "are not a threat to the North," acting State Department spokesman Robert Wood said when asked if Washington might be misreading Pyongyang. "What is a threat to the region is this bellicose rhetoric coming out of ... more |
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